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Looks pretty formidable. but you do the calculations. and russia, if they have 150,000 combat troops in the front, can put one every ten metres. and that's in a line with nothing behind it. and obviously, they're going to have depth, as you've seen from those images. it's about the sort of depth of obstacles they have. they don't have troops to fortify every inch of this. they're not sitting like the first world war, arm in arm. so the point of the obstacles is really to slow an assault is to make it difficult and then bring down artillery fire, bring down weapons fire on the enemy that's cros...

His parents were in the courtroom. they did not speak to the media but there was a brief exchange with their son, his stepfather said, "i love you, jack," and he responded, "i love you too, dad". he did not make a plea and now he will be detained until the next court hearing which is on wednesday. earlier, my colleague carl nasman spoke to congressmanjim himes, who serves as the top democrat on the house intelligence committee. thank you forjoining us and i think the first question on many minds now is how do the 21—year—old national guardsmen relatively junior 21—year—old national gua...

On many peoples' mind right now is, how did a 21—year—old national guardsman, relativelyjunior position, how did he have access to such highly classified material? yeah, thank you for having me. and it is really not a function of the individual�*s age. we charge 21—year—olds with leading combat troops, we put a lot of faith in our young people. it is more a question of, did an obscure networkjourneyman, i guess was his title, in massachusetts, did that individual need to have actual access to these documents to do the network maintenance or administration that was required? why in th...

But it has been very effective, according to many military officials i have spoken to, current and former. i've been there. it is a small mission. it's elite. it's led by some of the best special forces in the u.s. military. iran hates it. iran hates this mission. iran saw american combat troops mostly leave iraq, and it wants american combat troops to leave there completely. it wants american troops to get out of syria as well. it sees those troops in syria and iraq as a threat to iran's influence. by carrying out these attacks, it's tries to raise the price for keeping them there. getting on...

Saddam hussein was captured, tried, and executed, but the insurgency went on. abu mussab zarqawi, the jordanian-born leader, was killed but the againinsurgency on. sectarian tensions between the shia majority and the once-dominant sunni arab minority erupted into civil war, and the killing intensified. the violence only subsided after the u.s. surged more troops into iraq in 2007. >> we're here to support you. >> reporter: in august 2010, the last u.s. combat troops left iraq, leaving behind a brittle, corrupt, deeply flawed democratic regime riven by sectarian tensions. which provided fertile...